The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-03-27
TRENTON NOTES.
What is Said About Men and Things at
the State Capital.

lue StAAC OhPAA0As
Col. James M. Scovell is the Trenton
correspondent of the Philadelphia ''Times."
An exchange says that the only thing
the New Jersey Legislature will not pass is
bar.
Assemblyman Let's and family went to
Niagara Falls for trip east, last Thursday
night.
: The Camden "Post" iDtimates that
Gen. Sewell may be the next Senator from
Camden county.
Mrs. Edward Grinsdale, OF No. S1S
Grand street, Jersey City, is in Trenton ON
a visit to friends
Thomas V. Gator has been appointed
by the Governor, Water Commissioner vice
Andrew Clerk, deceased.
John 81. Jackson, colored Republican,
has been elected Assessor in Centre Town
shipin place of Assemblyman Henry Farley.
State Treasurer Toffey and Col. Charley
Fuller are SO much in each others company
that they suggest one of phllopoena.
Why? Because there are two Colonies
together.
Samuel H. Grey and David J. Pan
coast, who had charge of Haiues case, and
Alfred Hugg and Willard Fisk, who man
aged the claim of Assemblyman Turley, in
the famous contested election case, each
wants the State to pay him $500 for his SER
vices.
Governor Green had sealed communi-
cation marked nominations" and was
about to send it to the Senete last WedHes-
day, when Assemblyman Feeney asked him
to Withhold it. The name of Albert Hoffman
for Lay Judge in place of Judge John
Brina was in the envelope.
The suit of John Kennel against john
A. Hall, fer services as lobbyist rendered
to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com
pany, which was to have been tried at
Trenton on Wednesday, has been adjourned
until next week AS damaging disclosures
are threatened, the suit will probably be
settled between the parties.
The Governor has signed the resolu-
ton submitting TO two arbitrators the task
of settling the disputed tax questions be-
tween the State and the Morris and Essex
Railroad Company, and it is therefore now
law. There is a rumor that Barker Gum
mere will be selected as the arbitrators on
behalf OF the State. and ex-senator Sewell
on behalf of the Railroad Company.
Ex-Governor Rodman NJ Price was
one Ol bu0 OHlllOrAkd pAOAceASs AAo CdlA-
fornia Legislature have appropriated $780,
600, to be devoted to commemoration OF
his services in building up the Pacific
Coast He is to have the interest during
his life time After his death the prlnci-
pal is to be spent for monument to his
memory. The monument, the preamble
of the resolutions asserts, is to be III COM
memoration of Ex-Governor Prices SER
vices in the acquisition of California and
subsequent achievements and services to
his country and to this State; the sole pro-
moter of the proclamation of occupation
and orator of the occasion, the first agri-
culturist of the State, the first American
civic official within its borders, member OF
the first Constitutional Convention, the
first contributor to and promoter of our
schools and churches, the first steamboat
proprietor on our coast, the first regular
candidate for Congress, and the first mem
Der of Congress (then from New Jersey to
introduce measures for practical trans
continental Pacific railroad.